Birth Events & Stress as Play

Question 1

Birth Events

Answer 1

• premature infants can experience growth and development and they thus expect to reach development milestones at the same age they would have reached them if born at normal gestational age
• Age is adjusted for assessments by subtracting the week/months that the infant was born prematurely from the
  current chronological age

Question 2

Stress as Play

Answer 2

play is what children do and should not be overlooked when a child is in the hospital. Play can be diversional activity and a stress reducer and provides the hospitalized child with an opportunity to act out fear and anxiety